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	'<{title}>' => 'Potentially a swimsuit',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		For each breakfast and lunch, I had a bowel of cereal.
		I guess I didn&apos;t know what to make for lunch, so I just ate something that&apos;s pretty much ready as it is.
		For dinner, I had 3 small quesadillas.
		I have no idea why I bought such small tortillas.
		I also had 60 pistachios throughout the day.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religious study</h2>
	<p>
		The missionaries cancelled on me again at the last minute.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="dietary">
	<h2>Dietary meeting</h2>
	<p>
		The receptionist pestered me for a Social Security number and telephone number again.
		I explained once again that I don&apos;t have telephone service and lied about forgetting my Social Security card again.
		There&apos;s just no good way to tell them that my Social Security number is none of their business.
		They think that because they&apos;re a hospital, they&apos;re entitled to it.
		They&apos;re not.
		Without telephone service, they asked if they had a way to contact me, then before I could answer, they found my email address on the account.
		Without telephone service thought, they said I should log into their website and check on things there.
		I explained that their website requires a Social Security number, but isn&apos;t accepting the one I&apos;m entering, probably because they don&apos;t have one on file.
	</p>
	<p>
		We had another weighing today.
		This time, I&apos;m 101.6 kilograms.
		According to my journal, <a href="/en/weblog/2019/05-May/23.xhtml">I weighed in at 110 kilograms on may 23</a>.
		There&apos;s a bit of wiggle room, as they can&apos;t weigh me without including the weight of the contents of my digestive track, so a small drop isn&apos;t something I&apos;d even believe was necessarily a drop at all.
		But to me, 8.4 kilograms seems like a pretty big change!
		I couldn&apos;t help but feel some relief at that number.
		Of course, even if there was no change, or even if there was an increase, I&apos;d chalk it up to muscle weight, as I&apos;ve clearly been getting thinner.
	</p>
	<p>
		The dietician was trying to talk those of us that hadn&apos;t made our one-on-one appointments with them yet to do so.
		I was going to schedule mine on the day of our last group meeting before leaving, but I made it today to make them happy.
		My appointment will be on October 22, from 08:30 to 09:30, which is the earliest time slot they had available during the required time period, which begins a month after our final group meeting.
	</p>
	<p>
		Most of what we talked about this time was problem-solving and obstacles that may get in our way.
		There really wasn&apos;t much to say about what we covered.
		It was pretty obvious stuff.
	</p>
	<p>
		Today, we introduced ourselves again, reported on our goals, and gave an example of an obstacle we have trouble with in our lives.
		The dietician has a tendancy to overdo things and get hurt.
		One participant failed at their goal of working more humour into their life due to dealing with insurance paperwork.
		Their obstacle is a lack of time.
		One person&apos;s goal was to go swimming at least once.
		They failed to find time for that, but got swimwear bought.
		Their obstacle is lack of sleep.
		The next participant succeeded in their goal of walking and biking more, but failed in their other ongoing goal of quitting smoking.
		They&apos;ve reduced their smoking further, but they&apos;re also switching to vaping now, so I&apos;m not sure if that&apos;s an improvement.
		Their obstacle was severe anxiety caused by some drugs their doctor prescribed them.
		They couldn&apos;t think straight until that was sorted out.
		Another obstacle they mentioned was laziness.
	</p>
	<p>
		One interesting thing we covered was the criteria of emotional maturity.
		Hilariously, Summer lacks all but perhaps one of the qualifications.
		So she&apos;s emotionally immature.
		It&apos;s no wonder she&apos;s so messed up.
		Unfortunately, I&apos;ve inherited a few of her inadequacies.
		I&apos;m a lot better than her, but I do have stuff I need to work on improving.
	</p>
	<p>
		We talked about how tradition, culture, advertising, habits, values, and beliefs can all hold you back or help you.
		In particular, I think traditions and culture hold a lot of people back.
		Even with good traditions and culture, which are unfortunately uncommon where I live, if you&apos;re doing things just because that&apos;s the way they&apos;re done, you&apos;re not actually thinking about if that&apos;s the way things should be done or if there&apos;s maybe a better way.
	</p>
	<p>
		As usual, the dietician solicited examples from the group when we discussed how these things could help or hinder, so I brought up how when I used to go do traditional meals with Summer out of town with her family, there was almost no food around that I could actually eat, which left me pretty much starving for a few days.
		That couldn&apos;t be good for my metabolism.
		The dietician asked me what sort of solutions I could try.
		I said I&apos;d already solved the problem: I no longer have much to do with Summer, so I&apos;m not stuck out of town without anything to eat.
		The dietician wanted other solutions, such as bringing food, but I explained about Summer&apos;s over-controlling attitude and how she would easily be offended if she noticed I was hauling in food to eat instead of what was available.
		I could only bring what I could conceal.
		Again, the dietician wanted solutions for if I ended up in such a case with other people, but I&apos;m not puting up with such toxic behaviour any more.
		That&apos;s the solution.
		If my dietary needs aren&apos;t being met, and especially if I can&apos;t openly bring food, there&apos;s a serious problem there.
		Another participant came up with a high-calorie snack though, which could keep you going: a mix of peanuts and raisins.
		You don&apos;t need to eat as much of it, because it&apos;s calorie-dense, so the amount you can conceal will last longer.
		It&apos;s an interesting idea for other situations, though for this one, I&apos;d have to say I&apos;ve got the perfect solution already.
	</p>
	<p>
		We watched a short video on heath fraud scams.
		Most of what it said was rather obvious to anyone that&apos;s as aware of how manipulative companies are as I am.
		The one thing that really stuck out to me though was that some of these companies selling unverified &quot;health products&quot; actually pay various random people to spread the word about their products and make claims about how great they are.
		These companies are <strong>*paying*</strong> for word-of-mouth advertising!
		That means you can&apos;t even trust &quot;advice&quot; from people that claim to have had success with the product.
		I mean, you already can&apos;t trust the judgement of many people, so word-of-mouth already has to be taken with a grain of salt, but it seems you actually have to throw word-of-mouth advice out completely unless its from someone you know for sure wouldn&apos;t lie to you.
	</p>
	<p>
		After the meeting, I got to talking with a couple of the other participants.
		When I was talking to the second, the topic came around to swimming.
		I mentioned not having a swimsuit, and not wanting to buy one until I thinned down because they&apos;re expensive and I didn&apos;t want to have to buy a second one soon.
		They offered me one of theirs!
		I&apos;ll have to see if it fits, but they said its too small for them, and they&apos;ll bring it for me in about a month at our next meeting.
		Then, the want us to go swimming together some point later.
		That should be fun.
		I haven&apos;t been anywhere near the water in years.
		And the day of that meeting is the day my website update marking the end of the term is due, so it&apos;s the perfect day to set plans for the break period, when I have a more time to spare.
	</p>
	<p>
		The new goal I set at the end of this meeting was to get to bed earlier.
		Lately, I&apos;ve been staying up way past midnight working on coursework, my journal entries, Minetest, and other things.
		I&apos;d be doing better health-wise and I&apos;d probably feel better if I got to bed at a timely hour.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			What are the most popular programming languages today?
			Well, we can easily look up a list, and find that according to some, the most popular programming languages are, in order from most-popular to comparatively least-popular: Python, Java, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, $a[PHP], Objective-C, $a[SQL], and C (Kim, 2015).
			However, it&apos;s worth stepping back for a moment and asking ourselves how meaningful such a question is.
			Different languages are often used to fill specific roles.
			For example, if you want to develop on Android, you pretty much have to use Java.
			I think OS X development is supposed to be easier with Objective-C, or something like that.
			To most people, $a[PHP] and JavaScript are used only on the Web.
			Of course, both of these languages are more than capable of being used outside the Web, just most people don&apos;t do it.
			$a[SQL] only functions in a database environment, and is a domain-specific language, not a general purpose language.
			I think you can see where I&apos;m going with this.
			Knowing what languages are most popular overall doesn&apos;t rally tell you as much as you might think.
			Instead, it&apos;s more useful to ask what languages are most popular for a specific role or in a specific field, and once you have that question, ask yourself why that particular language seems to generally be thought to be the best for that type of job.
			The truth is that no language covers every use case equally well, and knowing multiple languages can help you express a given problem you have so the computer can solve it properly.
		</p>
		<p>
			What is Java used for?
			Well, as we&apos;ve seen in this course, it&apos;s used for Android development.
			Java is what&apos;s known as a general-purpose programming language though, which means that you can pretty much use it for anything.
			Like any reasonably-useful language, it provides good cross-platform support, but it does it in sort of an odd way: the compiler only supports one type of machine, and no hardware has ever been invented to actually implement what Java compiles to.
			Instead, it has to be run on the Java Virtual Machine, which is a sort of emulator that runs compiled Java code.
			The emulator though has been ported to a variety of platforms, so Java code is effectively supported on those platforms.
			As Oracle puts it, &quot;From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!&quot; (Oracle, n.d.).
		</p>
		<p>
			Can knowing Java help you in your career?
			What an oddly unspecific question.
			I mean, forget the obvious question of &quot;Help you in what way?&quot;.
			Instead, help you in what career?
			Personally, I don&apos;t know what I&apos;m going to do yet.
			I might not even end up in a job that has me write a single line of code in any language.
			But many people here do know what they want to do, and plan to go into fields such as Web development, which don&apos;t tend to use Java much if at all.
			Meanwhile, others want to be Android application developers, and will need to make heavy use of Java and $a[XML] on a daily basis.
			There are so many careers, and so many reasons each of us have ended up in this degree program.
			Some of us will find Java to be vital to know, while others really won&apos;t.
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Kim, L.
				(2015, June 1).
				<a href="https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/10-most-popular-programming-languages-today.html">10 Most Popular Programming Languages Today | Inc.com</a>.
				Retrieved from <code>https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/10-most-popular-programming-languages-today.html</code>
			</p>
			<p>
				Oracle.
				(n.d.).
				<a href="https://java.com/en/download/faq/whatis_java.xml">What is Java and why do I need it?</a>.
				Retrieved from <code>https://java.com/en/download/faq/whatis_java.xml</code>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2019/07/18.png" alt="Isle of Exhaustion" class="framed-centred-image" width="1024" height="600"/>
	<p>
		After yesterday, when I mentioned that my tiny mushroom farm was deep enough to go under the local waterways, I decided today to make a second entrance to the mushroom farm on the nearest island.
		It&apos;s a tiny island, and I quickly stripped it of all its resources.
		The main thing it had was sand, but it also had a little coal and a couple pine trees.
		I took the dirt too, to use for the mushroom farm, then covered the stone with silver sand to make it look better.
		Being exhausted of resources, I&apos;ve named it the Isle of Exhaustion, again fitting in with the lack-of-sleep naming theme of the area.
		I&apos;m planning to build some sort of structure out in the water neat the island; perhaps another small cabin or something, with a bridge out from the island to it.
	</p>
	<p>
		With lots of dirt now in hand, I expanded the mushroom farm chamber, so one corner is under my cabin and the opposite corner is under Exhaustion.
		I didn&apos;t have enough dirt to completely fill that space, but I got enough laid down to get the mushroom farm pretty large.
		At this point, if I try to harvest all the mushrooms, replanting spores as I go, a great deal of them have returned by the time I finish and I can start again.
		I farmed easy levels off the mushrooms for a while, but now, I&apos;m not sure what to do with the actual mushrooms.
		They&apos;re just sort of taking up space in my chests.
		If they were full cubes, I could build something out of them, but they&apos;re mushroom-shaped, and break if they don&apos;t have a node to rest on.
		There&apos;s really not much I can do with them, though I guess I could lay a few out for decoration, if I decide to do that.
		That&apos;d still leave me with hundreds of mushrooms remaining though.
		If not for my goal being levelling up and not generation of actual supplies to use, mushroom farming really wouldn&apos;t be a great idea.
	</p>
</section>
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